Editing Helen Prejean (section)

==Campaigns, book, and awards==
In 1996, she was awarded the [[Laetare Medal]] by the [[University of Notre Dame]], the oldest and most prestigious award for [[American Catholics]].<ref>{{cite web |publisher= University of Notre Dame |title=Recipients {{!}} The Laetare Medal |url=https://laetare.nd.edu/recipients/#info1996 |access-date=2 August 2020 |language=en}}</ref>

In 1999, Prejean formed Moratorium 2000, a petition drive that eventually grew into a national education campaign, The Moratorium Campaign,<ref name=moratorium>{{cite web |url=http://www.moratoriumcampaign.org/ |title=The Moratorium Campaign |access-date=December 22, 2015 }}</ref> seeking to declare a moratorium to executions. It was initially staffed by Robert Jones, Theresa Meisz, and Jené O'Keefe. The organization [[Witness to Innocence]],<ref name=witness>{{cite web |url=http://www.witnesstoinnocence.org |title=Witness to Innocence |publisher=Witness to Innocence |access-date=December 22, 2015 }}</ref> composed of death row survivors who were exonerated after being convicted for crimes they did not commit, was started under The Moratorium Campaign.

Prejean wrote a second book, ''The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions'' (2004). She tells of two men, [[Dobie Gillis Williams]] and Joseph O'Dell, whom she accompanied to their executions. She believes that both men were innocent of the crimes for which they were convicted. The book also examines the recent history of death penalty decisions by the [[Supreme Court of the United States]] and the [[George W. Bush as Governor of Texas|record]] of [[George W. Bush]] as [[Governor of Texas]].

In 1998, Prejean was given the [[Pacem in Terris Award|''Pacem in Terris'' Award]], named after a 1963 [[encyclical]] letter by [[Pope John XXIII]] that calls on all people of good will to secure peace among all nations. ''[[Pacem in terris]]'' is [[Latin]] for "Peace on Earth."

Prejean now bases her work at the Ministry Against the Death Penalty in New Orleans. She gives talks about the issues across the United States and around the world. She and her sister Mary Ann Antrobus have also been deeply involved at a center in [[Nicaragua]] called Friends of Batahola.<ref name=Batahola>{{cite web |url=http://ias.umn.edu/2011/06/01/antrobus-prejean/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130213031518/http://ias.umn.edu/2011/06/01/antrobus-prejean/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 13, 2013 |title=Sister Helen Prejean (CSJ) and Mary Ann Antrobus, June 2011 |publisher= University of Minnesota |first=Aaron |last=Victorin-Vangerud |date=June 1, 2011 |access-date=December 22, 2015 }}</ref>

In 2019 she wrote a memoir titled ''River of Fire: My Spiritual Journey''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/133675/river-of-fire-by-sister-helen-prejean/9781400067305|title=River of Fire by Helen Prejean: 9781400067305 {{!}} PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books|website=PenguinRandomhouse.com|language=en-US|access-date=2019-09-26}}</ref> In it she talks about her spiritual journey leading her to engage in [[social justice]] work.